Re: The son slays the father

I'm watching Sufjan Stevens on Austin City Limits and really marveling at exactly how much he did lift from his tenure in the Danielson Famile - the quirky but catchy, oddly instrumented folk music, the band all wearing matching, outsider art influenced costumes, etc. Which is fine - Daniel Smith is way too weird to ever achieve much more success than he already has, so it might as well be a buddy/hand-picked protege who builds on his vision and gets more famous with it than he likely ever will himself.

So who are some other musicians who have taken their mentors' vision to higher heights than the original ever achieved? (I would throw out some more myself, but I have too much of a headache to think of any. I'm just incredibly pleased the STL PBS station has finally started showing Austin City Limits again.)

insightful obs; yr absolutely right
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albini>jourgensen>reznor>manson
(or so some would have argued a decade ago)

buzz osbourne>steve turner/matt lukin>cobain

branca>ranaldo>moore

Jello>?



Post Edited (08-28-07 01:31)

Woody Guthrie....Bob Dylan
John Mayall...Eric Clapton

bo diddley....yardbirds
baez...joni m
beethoven...shostakovich
michael jordan...lebron
duke ellingtom...mingus
sam cooke...al green

syd barrett...robyn hitchcock

Vanda & Young > AC/DC

marvin gaye

al stewart- the lead singer from the petshop boys

I don't think shostakovich or mingus slayed the father (and come on, I'm a die-hard Laker fan, but I gotta admit that NO-ONE has slain jordan) in the sense that they become more succesful then their mentor. However:

Gun Club > White Stripes

Schoolly D > Ice T, NWA

Chuck Berry > Keith Richards

Pixies > Nirvana

wait,

Hitchcock was mentored by Barrett?



Post Edited (08-29-07 18:45)

No, more like being an influence.

Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes > Teddy Pendergrass

Spencer Davis > Steve Winwood

No Doubt > Gwen Knobhead

them>van morrison

lynryd skynryd>jet engine

not that i wanted to say anything even remotely serious but i do believethat mingus transcended duke after incorporating him whole


and is kobe that rapist that doesn't like hall of fame centers on his team? i confuse him with that other idiot marbury sometimes...